Interior places / Lisa Knopp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knopp, Lisa, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knopp, Lisa, 1956-.

Knopp, Lisa.

History.

Philosophy.

Natural history.

Lincoln Region (Neb.)--Biography.

Lincoln Region (Neb.).

Lincoln Region (Neb.)--Description and travel.

Lincoln Region (Neb.)--Social life and customs.

Natural history--Nebraska.

Knopp, Lisa, 1956---Philosophy.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Home--Psychological aspects.

Home.

Nebraska--History--Miscellanea.

Nebraska.

Nebraska--Biography--Miscellanea.

Genre:

Biographies.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]

Summary:

"We must include Knopp among those whom Barry Lopez calls our 'local geniuses of the American landscape,'" Fran Shaw remarks in the journal Parabola. And, indeed, in this new book, Lisa Knopp's singular genius burrows deep into that landscape in showing us what it is to know, feel, and inhabit unique yet quintessentially American places.

A collection of essays embracing nonfiction from memoir and biography to travel writing and natural history, Interior Places offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape. Here is an essay about the origin, history, and influence of corn. Here we find an exploration of a childhood meeting with Frederick Leopold, youngest brother of the great naturalist Aldo. Here also are a chronicle of the 146-year alliance between Burlington, lowa, and the Burlington Route (later the CB&O, the BN, and finally, the BNSF) and a pilgrimage to Amelia Earthart's Kansas hometown. Whether writing about the lives of two of P.T. Barnum's giants or the "secret" nuclear weapons plant in southeastern lowa, about hunger in Lincoln, Nebraska, or bird banding on the Platte River, Knopp captures the inner character of the Midwest as Nature dictates it, people live it, and history reveals it.

Contents:

1 The Way In 1

2 Traces 11

3 Bread and Butter 35

4 Surrender 53

5 Thirty Shades of White 65

6 Pilgrimage 79

7 In the Corn 101

8 Enclosures 121

9 A Bit of Land 137

10 The Fence 151

11 Tending 177

12 Souvenir 191

13 Lingering Curiosities 209

14 Departure Moon 225

15 Visiting Frederic 245

16 This Creek 263.

Notes:

"Bison Books"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289).

ISBN:

9780803211438

0803211430

OCLC:

144330437